Israel
Subtitle: culture, religion, and society 1948-1998
By: edited by Stuart A. Cohen and Milton Shain.
Contributors: Cohen, Stuart.; Shain, Milton.
Publisher: Jewish Publications; Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Israel -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: This collection of essays reflects on the first fifty years of the Jewish State. it addresses issues such as: Jewish identity in the Jewish State, Israeli politics, the Army, and Arab-Israeli relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 98).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stuart A. Cohen and Milton Shain; title: Memory and identity / Anita Shapira; title: Changing Jewish identity in Israel and the United States / Charles S. Liebman; title: A society divided : Israeli politics at the turn of the century / Bernard Susser; title: The status of women in Israel : a fifty-year perspective / Hanna Herzog; title: Israel and her army, 1948-1998 : from convergence to confusion / Stuart A. Cohen; title: Fifty years of Arab-Israeli relations : an Israeli perspective / Gabriel Ben-Dor.